alt Hacker NewsPython has that too, it's called a context manager, basically the same thing as C++ RAII.
You can argue that RAII is more elegant, because it doesn't add one mandatory indentation level.
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logicchains • today at 1:11 PM
It's not the same thing at all because you have to remember to use the context manager, while in C++ the user doesn't need to write any extra code to use the destructor, it just happens automatically.
How do you return a file in the happy path when using a context manager?
If you can't, it's not remotely "basically the same as C++ RAII".